Round Table on the issues relating to management and promotion of creativity and innovation - Geneva, April 1st, 2004

On April 1st, 2004, the Permanent Mission of Romania organized with the support of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), a round-table on issues relating to management and promotion of creativity and innovation. Participants were officials from the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, the National Agency for SMEs and Cooperation, the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, and Romanian inventors.

The round table offered a good framework for debates aimed to raising awareness on issues related to the protection and promotion of Intellectual Property in Romania, with particular focus on the huge potential in the field of creativity and innovation.

The presentations made by the key-note speakers were focused on:

• The management of intellectual property rights - WIPO cooperation with countries in transition from Europe - Mr. Jeno BOBROVSZKY - Director, Division for Cooperation with Certain Countries in Europe and Asia, WIPO;
• Small- and medium-sized enterprises as driving force behind innovations and the knowledge-driven economy - Mr. Guriqubal Singh JAIYA - Director, SMEs Division, WIPO;
• Promotion of inventive and creative activity all over the world through recognition and protection of intellectual property rights - Mr. Valdimir YOSSIFOV- Director, Division of Infrastructure Services and Innovation Promotion, WIPO;
• The research and development (R&D) activity: priority for the societies in transition. The technological transfer -determinant stage of the innovation process - Dr. Hans Falk HOFFMANN -Division on Computing and Transfer of Technology, CERN;
• WIPO NET- Connecting the Global IP Community - Mr. Alain ROACH - CIO and Director, IT Division, WIPO;
• The Romanian National Strategy on Innovation and Technological Transfer - Mr. Constantin RANEA, Director, Ministry of Education, Research and Youth - Romania;
• The Romanian National Strategy in the field of Intellectual Property - Mrs. Liliana KLEININGER, the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks;
• Best practice in the development of entrepreneurship and SMEs in Romania - Mrs. Anca POPESCU, Director, National Agency for SMEs and Cooperation - Romania.